In what is perhaps the largest well to be drilled in Oklahoma’s STACK, Devon Energy of Oklahoma City announced a record well reaching 6,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. It’s a Meramec well in southwest Kingfisher County. The company said the Privott 17-H well achieved a facility-constrained peak 24-hour rate of 6,000 oil-equivalent barrels …
Ohio’s demanding nearly $1 million from Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline that drew thousands of protesters last year in North Dakota. This time, the claim involves the company’s $4.2 billion gas pipeline called Rover which leaked more than 2 million dollars of drilling mud into Stark County wetlands. …
Colorado’s Gov. John Hickenlooper announced this week he intends to join another dozen states in an attempt to comply with the Paris climate accord. Oklahoma is not one of those dozen states. “We will join the Climate Alliance because our voices are more powerful when we speak as one,” said the Democratic governor as he …
Thursday will mark a “Play-In for Climate Action” rally in Washington by moms and their children and one of them will be Oklahoma environmentalist activist Casey Camp-Horinek. She describes herself as an actress, a Native rights activist and environmentalist and will be one of the speakers at the Capitol Hill protest. Camp-Horinek’s a leader of …
Oil and gas exploration isn’t letting up in Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP based on the latest permits for drilling as published by OK Energy Today. Four requests for Blaine county, one of the three counties making up the STACK were approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Three of the four went to Overflow Energy LLC, …
Oil futures settled above $45 a barrel on Tuesday as news of potential OPEC production curbs for Libya and Nigeria and a lower forecast for 2018 domestic crude output sparked a jump in settlements, according to Bloomberg MarketWatch. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, August West Texas Intermediate crude rose 64 cents, or 1.4%, to settle …
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In a move that will likely affect numerous environmental issues, including those having an impact on Oklahoma, Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has announced her retirement. It opens the door for President Trump to appoint someone who is friendly to his environmental policies. Brown …
Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller says the state’s recession is officially over and the economic recovery is well underway. And he credits most of it to the oil and gas exploration in the past year as gross production tax revenues increased for the year and again in June. “Monthly gross receipts have been higher than …
Oklahoma’s average gasoline prices rose 4.5 cents a gallon in the past week, reaching a new statewide average of $2.01 a gallon, according to AAA Oklahoma. At the same time, the national average gas price rose 3 cents to reach $2.26 a gallon, an increase for the first time in five weeks. It means drivers …
